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A joint enterprise : Indian elites and the making of British Bombay
Abstract from the publisher : An in-depth look at the urban history of British Bombay It was the era of the Raj, and yet A Joint Enterprise reveals the unexpected role of native communities in the transformation of the urban fabric of British…
America becomes urban : The development of U.S. cities and towns 1780-1980
From the preface :
The American city: we think of the Manhattan skyline, of Chicago curving along the shore of Lake Michigan, or of the Golden Gate Bridge arcing into San Francisco. Or, if we think historically, we might envision steerage…
American city planning since 1890
Abstract from the publisher :
City planning is an ancient activity but a modern profession. The city planning profession in the United States arose from the urban reform movements of the 1890s and early years of this century. Here, in a volume…
American urban form: A representative history
Abstract from the publisher:
American urban form--the spaces, places, and boundaries that define city life--has been evolving since the first settlements of colonial days. The changing patterns of houses, buildings, streets, parks, pipes and wires,…
Apprendre à voir la ville : Ferrare, la première ville moderne d'Europe
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Véritable pendant de Apprendre à voir l'architecture (1959, 18 éditions) pour la compréhension de l'urbanisme, Apprendre à voir la ville permet de cerner tous les…
Barcelone
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Ce portrait de la capitale catalane, sous forme d'une généalogie de son espace urbain, met en exergue ses singularités, liées à son histoire, à la géographie…
Bâtir la vie : un architecte témoin de son temps
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Bâtir la vie est un récit, recueilli et mis en forme en 1977 par Michel Lefebvre. Candilis raconte son extraordinaire parcours, de Bakou à Athènes, Paris, Casablanca ou La…
Beijing record : A physical and political history of planning modern Beijing
Abstract from the publisher : Beijing Record, the result of ten years of research on the urban transformation of Beijing in the last fifty years, brings to an extended Western audience the inside story on the key decisions that led to Beijing's…
Brasília, plan and reality : A study of planned and spontaneous urban development
Extract from the preface :
This book is a considerably revised version of my doctoral dissertation. I wanted it to deal with ongoing social trends instead of the merely exotic or the archaic, so often pursued by anthropologists... Brasília…
Bruxelles – 100 ans d’Urbanisme – 1910-2010
Ce livre pourrait aussi s’appeler « Si Bruxelles m’était contée à travers les rêves des architectes, et urbanistes ». Il illustre, à l’aide d’images pleine page commentées, leur ambition de donner à la ville un visage de capitale à travers de grands…
Chandigarh et Le Corbusier. Création d'une ville en Inde, 1950 - 1965
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Ce travail d’architecte-historien extrêmement fouillé et documenté traque, à l’occasion de la rencontre de l’auteur de l’Esprit nouveau, du concepteur de…
Changing plans for America's inner cities
Abstract from the publisher :
Cincinnati’s historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood began in the nineteenth century as a nonelite suburb and became in the twentieth century an inner-city slum, burdened with a broad range of problems characteristic…
Cities at war in early modern Europe
Abstract from the publisher : Between 1550 and 1700, artillery siege warfare transformed the European city, which was theorized, fortified, violated, rebuilt, and celebrated by leading artists and architects. The fortified perimeter, with its…
City at the center of the world: Space, history, and modernity in Quito
Abstract from the publisher: In the seventeenth century, local Jesuits and Franciscans imagined Quito, the Andean capital of Ecuador, as the “new Rome.” It was the site of miracles and home of saintly inhabitants, the origin of crusades…
City visions 1910 / 2010 : Urban planning in Berlin, London, Paris and Chicago 1910 and 2010
Extract from the catalogue :
The exhibition City Visions 1910 | 2010 is a celebration of the anniversary of the General Town Planning Exhibition. It compares two key moments in time: The years around 1910 and 2010.
1910
The planning exhibition…
Civitas by design : Building better communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism
Abstract from the publisher :
Since the end of the nineteenth century, city planners have aspired not only to improve the physical living conditions of urban residents but to strengthen civic ties through better design of built environments. From…
Company towns in the Americas : Landscape, power, and working-class communities
Abstract from the publisher : Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding…
Contemporary urbanism in Brazil: Beyond Brasília
Abstract from the publisher : For decades, a succession of military regimes and democratic governments in Brazil sought to shape the future of their society through the manipulation of urban spaces. Planned cities were built that reflected the…
Double restoration : Berlin after 1945
Abstract from the distributor :
The reconstruction of Berlin, after the massive destruction it suffered in World War II, was complicated in two fundamental ways. First was the question of historical continuity. On the one hand, there was a desire…
The reconstruction of Berlin, after the massive destruction it suffered in World War II, was complicated in two fundamental ways. First was the question of historical continuity. On the one hand, there was a desire…